"It is clear that BJP will win more seats than ever in the upcoming election. Gujarat is a developed region. It has risen above caste politics. It will never go back that path," Jaitley told ANI.

Reacting on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale fighter jet deal, the Union Finance Minister said, "The deal was in favour of our country. It boosts the army's and air force's capability. It was a fake campaigning during election by Rahul Gandhi."

Yesterday, Gandhi alleged that Prime Minister Modi single-handedly finalised the Rafale fighter jets deal without following the due procedure.

The Congress Party has accused the government of buying the jets at an exorbitant price, paying three times the price negotiated by UPA-2 in 2012.

The assembly election in the state will be held in two phases on December 9 and 14, and the votes will be counted on December 18. (ANI)

Pune (Maharashtra) [India] February 22 (ANI): National Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar has said, with the introduction of bullet train project, nobody will go to Ahmedabad, rather Mumbai will be overcrowded, adding nothing can break off Mumbai from Maharashtra.

Mungaoli (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Feb 22 (ANI): Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia said that the upcoming by-election in the state is not a selection between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), rather the people have to choose between Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and him.